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Howdy Frater! I had a question about company markings I was hoping someone might be able to help me with. So I've been collecting space marines from the Exorcists chapter on-and-off for a while now, because I love their background and their colour scheme. I've always given them black shoulder trim because that's how I first saw them depicted in FW's Badab War series, and I thought it looked great. Now the Badab War books state that the Exorcists follow the Codex Astartes regarding insignia, and the current SM codex (pg 58) shows a battle brother from second company with gold trim, so you'd figure mine would be fifth company. Problem is I'm converting up a model for Silas Alberec, the Exorcists Captain of the Third, so I want my marines to be third company - but I don't like the look of red trim on red shoulders, so I'm looking for suggestions on how to make my marines third company without getting rid of the black trim. And just to muddy the waters, the Badab War books have a veteran sergeant wearing the white helm and trim of first company, while a squad of marines from a tactical reserve company (I forget which) have black trim - which you'd think would make them from the fifth, a battle company. TL;DR: Want to make my marines from the third company while keeping black trim, looking for suggestions! (I wasn't sure whether I should post this here or in another sub-forum, but it's technically about painting and colour schemes so I thought this would be appropriate - apologies if it's not.) Thanks for your time!